On the day before the Atitlán Christmas Bird Count (CBC) in western Guatemala, the group chat created to coordinate the event began to fill with messages. Eager birders first shared news of a curious ...

Think “tropical birds” and your mind’s eye most likely sees birds decked out in yellow, red, blue, and green, far more brilliant than our everyday LBJs (little brown jobs). Warblers, more correctly ...

Warblers, according to one classic old bird book — 1897’s “Bird Neighbors” by Neltje Blanchan — are a family of birds characterized as “exceedingly active, graceful, restless feeders among the ...

Old-World warblers, some 350 of them, seem to like wearing the same uniform – dusky olive brown, beige and grey -- which makes them a pain to identify ...

Prothonotary warblers are persistent, however, and typically will fight to defend the nest from wrens. If defeated, they often will relocate to a different nesting jar. Best and the warblers have a ...

Few migratory warblers are more fun to watch than the black-and-white warbler. You'd be hard pressed not to notice the bird with its uncommonly bright, streaked black-and-white plumage, the black ...

In the new book North on the Wing from Smithsonian Books, author Bruce Beehler (above left) follows the spring migration of songbirds. Bruce Beehler In 2015, after a lifetime spent observing birds ...

A Nashville warbler looks for a meal at Metzger Marsh Wildlife Area in Oregon, Ohio. The Blade/Andy Morrison Buy This Image Joe and Liz Sutter, St. Germain, Wisconsin, check a guide book to identify a ...

I'm wondering when they will arrive, the little yellow-rumped warblers that dot my trees and shrubs beginning in October. The birds breed in coniferous woodlands ranging from Alaska across Canada to ...